To get a clearer picture of what Bidenflation looks like, we need to compare prices between now and when Biden took office. That’s what TIPPinsights did, and the results show you that Bidenflation isn’t just worse than the White House wants you to believe — it’s worse than you might have realized.

Food prices increased by 20.6% under Biden compared to only 2.2% as per BLS CPI, a difference of 18.5 points.

TIPP CPI data show that Energy prices increased by 29.6%. But, according to the BLS CPI, energy prices improved by 1.9%. The difference between the two is a whopping 31.5 points.

The Core CPI measures the price increase for all items, excluding food and energy. In the year-over-year measure, the Core TIPP CPI is 16.5% compared to 3.8% BLS CPI, a 12.8-point difference.

Further, gasoline prices have increased by 29.9% since President Biden took office, whereas the BLS CPI shows that gasoline prices have improved by 3.9%, a difference of 33.8 points.

  • BobaFuttbucker@reddthat.com
    142·
    8 months ago

    People here seem to think the Oval Office has a secret “raise/lower prices” lever that the sitting President can just walk over to and adjust as needed. It’s not quite as simple as that y’all.

    Is Biden an evil mastermind or a sleepy dementia-addled grandpa? You do realize that both of these can’t be true, yeah?

    • PeepinGoodArgs@reddthat.comOP
      61·
      8 months ago

      It’s as Umberto Eco said

      The enemy is both weak and strong. “[…] the followers must be convinced that they can overwhelm the enemies. Thus, by a continuous shifting of rhetorical focus, the enemies are at the same time too strong and too weak.”

      • Neuromancer@lemm.eeM
        93·
        8 months ago

        Is it unreasonable to post an article and have a conversation about it? Sometimes, people post and then give their feedback on why they think it’s a bad argument in the article.

          • Neuromancer@lemm.eeM
            93·
            8 months ago

            Information isn’t scary. Having discussions on topics is good for everyone.

            We have become polarized as a nation, and people can’t have rational conversations anymore. They are scared of any view that doesn’t match their own.

            Read the article and provide some feedback. Rarely is the answer black or white; it’s often nuanced.

  • Neuromancer@lemm.eeM
    63·
    8 months ago

    I am curious about the gas one. That doesn’t seem to pass the sniff test. I don’t track gas prices but it doesn’t seem to be anymore expensive than before. I don’t hear people complaining about it. Groceries. Yes. Dining out. Yes. Gas not really.

    • TORFdot0@lemmy.world
      2·
      8 months ago

      We had negative oil prices at the start of the pandemic. Less than a year from that, the price of gas hadn’t fully rebounded it peaked in 2022 but has gone back down and stayed around the same prices. But gas has for sure been more expensive under Biden than it was under Trump.

      You can blame Biden for some of that but I think most of the blame should be on the fact we have had the Ukraine and Russian war since Feb 2022. The government posts the average gas prices for your viewing